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Article: Restaurant, Baptist church battle over liquor license.(METROPOLITAN)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2006
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Byline: Amy Doolittle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A vegetarian restaurant and lounge and a Baptist church in Northwest are battling over the restaurant's application for a liquor license. The church says the restaurant is located near a school and cannot have the license, and the District's Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration agrees. Meanwhile, two well-established liquor stores sit closer to the school than the restaurant but cannot be contested under current law.
The owners of the restaurant, Vegetate, and the office of D.C. Council member Jack Evans, Ward 2 Democrat, are working together to propose legislation that could change the way the city ...